Dual GTX 590 Question

Long story short, I received a replacement computer and went from dual HD 6990's to dual GTX 590's. I like NVIDIA more, but, I've noticed it won't let me use 60hz. I have the 21.5" Alienware monitor, and am pretty sure it's capable of 60hz.

After attempting to switch to the native resolution 1920x1080 60hz, it won't let me; it stays at HD 1920x1080 1080p.

However, Battlefield 3 still doesn't work very well with anything above 'low' settings, which is very frustrating. It happened on my last computer too... I have used the most up to date drivers on both set of GPU brands.

I havn't gotten to test any other games aside from WoW and BF3, because it's taking forever for me to install all my games off Steam again (I let them all run on download all through the night, and all through work today, and none of them have finished downloading... O_o).

Sorry for all the text! Looking forward to your feedback!

Edit: I should also mention, that if you look at my track record on this forum, I have had issues like this with every computer I've received. That's 8 total computers --I find that hard to believe.

Well, if it can run Windowed (a window the same size of the full monitor), that would seem to indicate it does indeed have the power to push that amount of pixels around at that resolution. That points to a software problem ... either the nVidia driver or more likely BF3 itself... maybe look for some BF3.ini tweaks or a new patched version.

As far as your power situation ... one of these will optomize your power, and the display will give you a read-out of that's coming in and going it (output will be adjusted optimal)

Thanks for the easy access downloads, I'll probably download more of the tools you listed on that page.

Heaven Benchmark finished downloading and I'll be looking into it shortly, and currently downloading 3Dmark. However, after further playing in windows mode, it began doing the same thing as full screen. It took a bit longer, but it started acting up in the same way.

Edit 1: What should I use for 'specs' on the heaven set-up page? Anti-Aliasing? High Tesselation? Anisotropy? Shaders? Etc. Etc.

Your card is from Asus, maybe it takes more time to update...
@OsirisEG Check your temps. Run your game at Ultra, with GPU-Z in the background (with the "Refresh window while in backgroud" enabled) and when your game finally crashes, check the highest temp it registered. 50% of the 590's airflow stays in the case, so it can be critical with SLI enabled. How are you cooling them ? Do you have a free PCI-E slot between the cards ?